Based on set automotive technology and a prolonged call focus infrastructure in Europe, BMW Motorrad’s vehicle-integrated Intelligent Emergency Call system is created to decrease emergency service response times by as considerably as 50 percent as soon as it makes its motorcycle debut early next year.

In 2018, eCall units will certainly come to be mandatory for all of brand-new cars sold in Europe, as section of a wider road safety scheme promoted by the European Commission. Multinational eCall trials in 2011, which included BMW vehicles, returned encouraging results. Emergency response times were recorded to be up to 50 percent shorter, which could translate to saving up to 2,500 lives per year according to the European Commission.

BMW is no stranger to such systems, having installed its very first auto application as early as 1999. In 2007, the BMW Group set an intelligent, cross-border call focus infrastructure in an initiative to make its European network as productive as possible. This groundwork suggests that BMW must be prepared as soon as the brand-new eCall legislation comes in to force, and likewise supplies the vital foundation to construct on while extending the service to the motorcycle division.

The Intelligent Emergency Call system identifies as soon as the motorcycle has actually been associated with an accident and promptly informs the proper BMW Call focus of the accident location. The system just calls for a connection to a mobile phone network; it doesn’t matter which provider the rider is subscribed to, as any sort of operational network in the location will certainly do.

Built about a mobile phone network module along with GPS spot detection and equipped along with 2 sensors that monitor lean angle and acceleration, BMW’s eCall system can easily distinguish non-emergency situations, such as a stationary fall, or potential false alarms that could outcome from hitting a pothole or off-road riding. A regulate element at the ideal adverse of the handlebars houses an SOS button, also as a microphone and a loudspeaker.

Once the system identifies that an accident has actually occurred, 3 feasible scenarios are taken in to account. In the case of a high-rate fall or collision the emergency call is triggered automatically and acknowledged by a display on the instrument panel and an acoustic signal. Emergency solutions are alerted and an operator from the BMW Call focus tries to establish contact along with the rider via audio connection.

If the system identifies a minor fall or collision, after that the emergency message will certainly be sent along with a 25 second delay, giving the rider the opportunity to cancel it prior to the previous scenario plays out.

Finally, the system can easily be triggered manually by just pushing the SOS button. In this case a voice connection along with the call focus operator is vital prior to the emergency solutions can easily be alerted.

According to BMW the Intelligent Emergency Call system will certainly be readily available as optional devices for its motorcycles in the start of 2017. Beginning in Germany, the strategy is to swiftly introduce it to much more European countries along with neighborhood operators that can easily communicate along with accident victims in their native language. As the system application spreads geographically, BMW likewise says that it intends to introduce it to its entire lineup, suggesting that initially it will certainly just be compatible along with certain models.